Four: Time out. (#retrobosak business)
I've just returned from a week spent visiting my granddaughter and have eight rolls of 135 to process. Also, I have just used up all the ready-to-post late 1960s photos that I took with me on the trip. So I'll be needing to pause the historical series for […]
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Roll 3dog03: UC Riverside (May 18, 1969)
Film photography fans! A special treat just for you: another set of photos of the 1969 Three Dog Night performance, but taken on Kodak Type 2485 Recording Film instead of the […]
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Roll 3dog02, cont.: UC Riverside (May 18, 1969)
One: Three Dog Night in performance. Note the continuously changing light show behind them. In #4 you can see that the audience is included in the effects.
A few […]
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Roll 3dog02, cont.: UC Riverside (May 18, 1969)
Photos of the band and crew of Three Dog Night, continued.
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Roll 3dog01, cont.: UC Riverside (May 18, 1969)
Continuing the ad hoc portraits of the members and associates of the big-name band Three Dog Night.
One: I really tripped on this guy.
Yes, from bed sheets.
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Roll 3dog01: UC Riverside (May 18, 1969)
James Rector was killed May 15, 1969. You've seen photos of the campus strike a week later and the protest march in Berkeley on May 30. In between, at the end of the annual […]
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Flirty, but how?
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Roll 1969park11, cont.: San Francisco (May 30, 1969)
One: We arrive at the door of whoever it is we are here to visit. (Currently the leading theory about where we are, thanks to @blabberlicious, is Half Moon Bay.) The meaning of the toothbrush eludes me.
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Roll 1969park11, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
As I said earlier, this is a personal view of our journey up to the march on People's Park. I have no memory of the rest of that day, so I'm having to put the remainder […]
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Roll 1969park11: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
One: The march on People's Park winds down, and the crowd starts for home.
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Roll 1969park10: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
One: I circle back around to the naked lady and her kid again. She has attracted a fresh set of photographers.
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Taking the day off tomorrow for travel via Amtrak to Champaign by way of Chicago. (I'll be checking in during the afternoon but not posting photos.) People's Park coverage continues Tuesday.
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Roll 1969park09, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
The scene as People's Park is reclaimed.
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Roll 1969park09: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
The reclamation of People's Park continues.
One: Laying sod and planting.
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Roll 1969park08, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
One: Boredom sets in among the occupying troops.
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Roll 1969park08, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
One: Planting as an act of protest.
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Roll 1969park08: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
A roll of random shots taken at (or near) People's Park.
One: Under the influence of all this flower power, even the cops begin to loosen up.
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Roll 1969park07, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
People continue to gather at People's Park.
One: Demonstrations of solidarity.
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Roll 1969park07, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
At People's Park.
One: A shaman arranges with some musicians at the scene to perform a kind of purification rite.
A panoramic view of 30,000 people converging on People's Park, composed of 11 frames of 35mm Tri-X (in landscape mode this time) stitched together in Photoshop CS6. The image from which this version was downsampled for Mastodon measures 18818x4563 pixels. Taking the component images in landscape mode (as here) is intuitively obvious, but using portrait mode (as in the panorama I posted a few days ago) always gives better results; you just have to take more of them. For digital panoramas nowadays, I use portrait mode with a wide-angle lens, generally a 24mm on a full-frame camera. (I was using a 15mm for this, but I had to sell it to come up with the cash for a new printer.)
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Roll 1969park07: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
Another panorama of the march on People's Park, this one showing plots roped off to protect them. It isn't as good as the one I posted a few days ago, but it did require […]
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Roll 1969park06: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
This roll is a mix of various shots taken along the way of the march to People's Park, presented in the order in which they were taken.
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Roll 1969park05, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
One: The march to People's Park continues.
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Roll 1969park05, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
One. Many participants in the march to People's Park carried dangerous weapons: flowers. Here an agitator can be seen supplying these communists with their nefarious […]
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Panoramic photo of 30,000 people taken on 12 portrait-mode frames of 35mm Tri-X stitched together in Photoshop CS6. The final PNG that was downscaled to make this Mastodon image measures 16305x6725 pixels.
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Roll 1969park05: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
This panorama was taken on 12 frames stitched together in Photoshop. The fact that I took the set as a panorama and then held on to the negatives for half a century until […]
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Roll 1969park03, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
People on motorcycles appear in the assembly area.
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Roll 1969park03: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
Everyone gets ready for the march.
One: The troops. You can dimly see Shakespeare & Co. in #2; that was on Telegraph when I moved to Berkeley 30 years later, so I'm guessing that this is where we are.
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Roll 1969park01, cont.: Berkeley (May 30, 1969)
We arrive the next morning in Berkeley and find that the place is occupied by 2000 national guardsmen, as advertised. I don't think that any of us were prepared for the […]
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[This was supposed to come before the first photos. Oh well.]
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Next up in #retrobosak are the pictures I took of the march on People's Park (Berkeley) on May 30, 1969. The march, attended by students from all nine UC campuses, was to protest the death of James Rector two weeks earlier. (See […]
This was before there was an interstate highway: it was US 395 through the desert and the Central Valley most of the way.
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Roll 1969park01: Getting to Berkeley (May 29, 1969)
The drive from Riverside to Berkeley was one of the longest rides I've ever taken in my life. We knew that we would be marching under the guns (literally) of the […]
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Roll 1969strike03, cont.: Student strike, UC Riverside (May 1969)
One: The Dean of Students shows up at the Associated Students office. He's there to start smoothing things over, but he's also mightily annoyed with […]
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Roll 1969strike03, cont.: Student strike, UC Riverside (May 1969)
As the strike winds down, we gather in the Associated Students office to celebrate success, and to congratulate ASUCR Executive Secretary Carolyn […]
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